Hi there! Are you fed up with the way things are in the world and think the current obsession with economic growth doesn’t make sense? Sounds like it’s time to grow out of growth! Come join us in exploring how to progress to a post-growth society and celebrating the degrowth movement!
Why GooG?
Our mission is to bring together researchers, activists, and practitioners to talk about how we can take action to realize degrowth.
We will host a range of interactive discussions and workshops focused on possible applications of degrowth at levels of policy, organization, and community, and we will hear about initiatives and ideas within the degrowth movement in Germany and discuss how we can collaborate more effectively to build the movement in Berlin.
Program
10:30-11:30 | Workshop: Practices for uncertainty |
10:00-11:45 | Welcome and Registration |
11:45-12:00 | Opening Words |
12:00-13:30 | Panel discussion: Degrowth at the organizational & community level - Reimagining systems and approaches Speakers: Jana Gebauer (IÖW Fellow), Cléo Mieulet (Transformation Haus und Feld), Lilian Pungas (University Duisburg-Essen), Caroline Rübe (RobinHood Stores) |
13:30-14:30 | Lunch break |
14:30-16:00 | Panel discussion: The way forward - What can we do to make degrowth a reality? Speakers: Friederike Habermann (Writer and researcher), Julio Linares (Circles UBI and Basic Income Earth Network), Caroline Ruebe (Konzeptwerk Neue Oekonomie), Antonio Rohrßen (Klimaliste and Beyond Growth Germany), Ulrich Teidelt (Letzte Generation) |
16:00-16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30-17:00 | Takeaways |
17:00-17:15 | Art interlude: Terra Terra (performantive intervention) |
17:15-18:45 | Degrowth movement in action: An experiment |
19:00-20:00 | Growing connections |
20:00-00:00 | Party |
Also:
Optional workshop: Exploring Degrowth policies with the En-ROADS Climate Simulator
Throughout the day: Art exhibits - reflections on growing out of growth
Registration and tickets
You can get your ticket at our eventbrite page.
The event is donation-based, as we want to make sure it is accessible to everyone. If you can’t afford to make a donation, please contact us. If you have money to burn, please consider donating more to support others.
About us
We are a group of people based in Berlin - with backgrounds in sustainable development and climate justice - who are interested in intensifying the discussion on degrowth and ultimately finding ways to make it happen. We are organizing this event in collaboration with the amazing team at C*SPACE.